http://www.newclarion.com/2008/12/government-obesity-needs-addressing/ Our mission is to combat the unreason and selflessness that are sweeping our culture from the nihilist left to the religious right, and to sound a new ideal of capitalism and individual rights in American politics. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newclarion.com/2008/12/government-obesity-needs-addressing/#comment-87 Myrhaf Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:23:27 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=121#comment-87 The more the government intervenes with health care, the more I expect them to pass laws against obesity. They might even levy a fat tax not just on refreshments but on people. This will seem logical to the statists, but just 20 years ago the idea would have been laughed at. I could stand to lose some weight, but I don't want to be ordered to do it by two-bit dictators in the Department of Fat People...or whatever it's called... The more the government intervenes with health care, the more I expect them to pass laws against obesity. They might even levy a fat tax not just on refreshments but on people. This will seem logical to the statists, but just 20 years ago the idea would have been laughed at. I could stand to lose some weight, but I don’t want to be ordered to do it by two-bit dictators in the Department of Fat People…or whatever it’s called…

]]> http://www.newclarion.com/2008/12/government-obesity-needs-addressing/#comment-80 Bill Brown Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:23:49 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=121#comment-80 Before anyone raises the objection, I know that the Constitution has enumerated powers that aren't legitimate—read rights-protecting—like the post office, taxes, and duties but this rubric would get us awfully far towards a properly-limited government. (And I know that another contradiction of the Constitution is that almost every illegitimate expansion since its drafting has been linked to an expansive interpretation of one of its clauses.) Before anyone raises the objection, I know that the Constitution has enumerated powers that aren’t legitimate—read rights-protecting—like the post office, taxes, and duties but this rubric would get us awfully far towards a properly-limited government. (And I know that another contradiction of the Constitution is that almost every illegitimate expansion since its drafting has been linked to an expansive interpretation of one of its clauses.)

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